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Its story

In Carina, the keel of the ship Argo, blazes a blue B-type giant nearly 500 light-years away. Its white-blue light, thousands of times more powerful than the Sun's, left as Galileo refined his telescope and discovered the moons of Jupiter. It now reaches us as a cold, electric gleam —the trace of a young, fierce star that has barely begun to tell its life.